This paper aims to provide the empirical evidence of the interaction mechanism in the open innovation system with … particular attention to aesthetic and rational innovation in an Italian creative sector. Factors including rapid technological …

classes across all sectors and all EU Member States, we identify different innovation profiles based on a firm's R …&D investment and/or innovation activities. We find that "basic" firms - i.e. firms that do not engage in any type of R&D or … innovation - are more common among young SMEs, while innovators - i.e. firms that do R&D and introduce new products, processes or …

- France, Germany, Italy and the UK - spanning from the mid-90s to the mid-00s. The more innovative sectors are actually those …The paper aims at estimating the innovation impact of the vertical integration of knowledge intensive business services … manufacturing innovation is then estimated. By merging OECD data on sectoral R&D and input-output tables with sectoral patent …